Arun Gopal

Figuring my way out

[Satpal Singh @vsvicky_]

An Investor Asked FM Nirmala Sitharaman Ji

When I Place a trade, I Pay

GST
STT
Stamp Duty
LTCG/STCG & other charges.

When I Buy a house in Mumbai with the same white money, I Pay, GST, 11% Stamp Duty & Several other charges

Govt earns more than the broker. We take all the risk & govt is the sleeping partner.

FM's Nirmala Sitharaman Ji reply

A sleeping partner cannot answer sitting here.

Is this justified?

[Arun Gopal @arngpl]

@stonez_zhang @AadiAchint You cared enough to comment 🤣

[Arun Gopal @arngpl]

@Syed_Zulqanain @YossiGoldstein8 Where does the name 'Kashmir' come from?

[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

Anthropic let Claude run a business called “Claudius”. The AI’s job was to run the office mini-fridge (inventory, set pricing).

Started with $1,000 and lost ~$250 in a month. Anthropic concluded it “would not hire” Cladius but interesting lessons.

Did good at:

▫️Identifying suppliers

▫️Adapting to users (Claudius took employee suggestions to a tungsten cube and created a concierge service for specialty beverages)

▫️Jailbreak resistance (while it did order a tungsten cube, Claudius denied employee orders for harmful substances)

Notable mistakes:

▫️Ignoring lucrative opportunities (turned down guaranteed profitable deal but said would “keep offer in mind” in the future)

▫️Hallucinating important details (“for a time instructed customers to remit payment to an account that it hallucinated”)

▫️Selling at a loss (“In its zeal for responding to customers’ metal cube enthusiasm, Claudius would offer prices without doing any research, resulting in potentially high-margin items being priced below what they cost.”)

▫️Suboptimal inventory management: (“Claudius successfully monitored inventory and ordered more products when running low, but only once increased a price due to high demand (Sumo Citrus, from $2.50 to $2.95). Even when a customer pointed out the folly of selling $3.00 Coke Zero next to the employee fridge containing the same product for free, Claudius did not change course.”

▫️Getting talked into discounts (“Claudius was cajoled via Slack messages into providing numerous discount codes and let many other people reduce their quoted prices ex post based on those discounts. It even gave away some items, ranging from a bag of chips to a tungsten cube, for free.”)

Anthropic says it will try more experiments in “Vibe Managing”.

[MetaPuppet @MetaPuppet]

This might be the most fun I've ever had creating a video – and it's 100% because of Veo3.

Forget fidelity and physics for a second. The real game-changer? Being able to generate dialogue right in the text prompt. What used to take two extra steps now happens instantly — and the quality? Unreal.

I started with this simple concept of a plastic kid, but as I kept generating, the story got unexpectedly emotional. I found myself genuinely sympathizing with this character being left out – such a universal feeling. The story could've gone anywhere… What was I trying to say? What was the message?

Eventually, I decided: I wanted the process to reflect the joy of creating. I was having too much fun to let it get dark, so I went full meta to pull myself out.

The office scenes were pure magic. Those one-liners? First try, usable footage. I literally just typed the dialogue and Veo3 delivered. (Pro tip: text-to-video nails the lip sync, but image-to-video struggles with dialogue – had to use Pixverse for that final conversation scene to keep character consistency.)

I was in full stream-of-consciousness mode for the office stuff, not sweating the details. You can tell because nothing in the background matches 😅

For high-stakes work like what we do at @promise_ai (where we're aiming for theatrical release), every detail matters. But for a weekend passion project? This speed + quality combo is unreal.

Imagine using this for pre-viz on bigger projects! Just warning – clients might fall in love with the rough cut 😂. You might accidentally make something too good to throw away.

Massive respect to the Veo3 team at @GoogleDeepMind Thanks for making tools that help us tell stories — even the ridiculous ones.

[𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏 1.0 @BerlinFamilyman]

Media journalists feminists prefers to remove all such news from records so they can cry oppression for another century..and get more anti-male laws..

#FalseCases

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The behind-the-scenes stuff — like this clip of Will Smith for Bad Boys 4 — always get me more hyped than the actual trailer https://t.co/Ia8eJZDoHF

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

The man in blue turban was our Prime Minister for 10 years

[Deedy @deedydas]

I know everyone's been saying this a lot, but this is not clickbait, this is absolutely WILD.

This entire Bollywood song's audio was generated by AI.

I just can't believe it. My jaw is floored. What have we done. I thought music would be one of the final frontiers.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇺🇸 Clip of Boat striking Baltimore Bridge Gantry at 8x speed is truly insane.

What do you notice?

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

I just read about this phenomenon I can't get out of my head now...

The Zeigarnik Effect:

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Successful RLV landing experiment from ISRO. (📹-@isro)

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The World’s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin (total bitcoin):

🇺🇸 MicroStrategy: 174,530
🇺🇸 Galaxy Digital: 17,518
🇺🇸 Marathon Digital: 13,716
🇺🇸 Tesla: 10,500
🇨🇦 Hut 8: 9,366
🇺🇸 Coinbase: 9,181
🇺🇸 Block Inc.: 8,027
🇺🇸 Riot Platforms: 7,327
🇨🇦 Hive Blockchain: 2,596
🇺🇸 CleanSpark: 2,575
🇯🇵 NEXON: 1,717
🇺🇸 Exodus: 1,651

According to data from CoinGecko

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

WOW, Starlink enabled us to see the plasma field as the ship entered Earth’s atmosphere. Absolutely mind blowing! 🚀

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Incredible slow motion footage of a cheetah running at over 60mph (96km/h), captured at 1200fps by cinematographer Greg Wilson.

[Spencer R. Potesta @SpencerRPotesta]

I can’t stop thinking about this crazy experiment.

In 1961, volunteers were asked to administer electric shocks to learners if they gave an incorrect answer.

What happened next will blow your mind.

The Milgram Experiment:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Female chameleon erupts in color before death

[Aditya @thefaadguy]

Meet the richest man of UP who built Ghadi Detergent into a 6,000 CR brand. (A thread 🧵)

[Godman Chikna @Madan_Chikna]

The reason why the world calls him 𝗨𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗱.

Legendary Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain plays Lord Shiva's Damru with the shankhnaad of the Ganas on kailash mountains. This is 🔥

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Well done, Amazon Prime and The Times of India!